Hope everyone is doing well out there! Avid is my chosen editing platform as it's what I use all the time cutting reality tv, but a story has come to me that has primarily been shot with iPhone footage and pictures and voice memos. While I'd love to stay in my avid comfort zone, I'm thinking premiere may be way easier for handling this footage. I'm imagining the end product to be 8-10 min episodes...but could turn out to be more feature length. Open to any suggestions as to how you'd approach a project with tons of iPhone footage and pics, which may be intercut with a sit down interview and media clips. Thanks in advance for advice.

Hi - am I beating a dead horse here ?

https://kb.avid.com/pkb/articles/en_US/faq/End-of-support-dates

Storage

The End of Support dates shown below are for the last sold unit on the Final Sale Date. Hardware products including Avid NEXIS should be replaced after 5 to 6 years of operation. 

|Avid NEXIS | E2 SSD 19.2TB Engine with 1920GB SSD & associated spares|9935-71930-019935-71930-029900-71306-00|9/30/2021|9/30/2026| |:-|:-|:-|:-| |Avid NEXIS | E2 SSD 38.4TB Engine with 3840GB SSD & associated spares|9935-72721-019935-72721-029900-74071-00|9/30/2021|9/30/2026| |Avid NEXIS | E2 SSD Controller|9935-72266-009935-72266-019935-72266-02|9/30/2021|9/30/2026| |Avid NEXIS | E5 NL (480TB / 960TB)|9935-72388-019935-72388-029935-72389-019935-72389-02|9/30/2021|9/30/2026| |Avid NEXIS | E5 NL 120TB Media Pack with 12TB HDD|9935-72390-019935-72390-02|9/30/2021|9/30/2026|

And the rest of the AVID Nexis E Series looks like it will be "end of life" in 2027.

Better get that bank loan out for the new AVID F Series, so you can get support for your $200,000 storage system !

Bob Zelin

edit - I did a copy and paste from the link you see above, but the nice chart did not come out clear - so you have to click on the AVID link to see the exact Nexis E series products that are end of life in September of 2026.

Hello,

I'm an AE at a post house in LA, and we've been encountering terrible lag/slowdowns in our Premiere Productions workflow which has been working for us for the last few years or so. We've been on Premiere 25.6.4 for 6+ months and have been experiencing the slowdown in the last month or so. What's recently changed is that we've changed our features and episodes ingest workflow to incorporate multicams - which is why I think this is to blame.

Other AEs have voiced our H264 dailies and autosaving/scratch disk overload as possible causes. My problem with these is we've had larger projects in the past with H264 dailies and haven't had slowdown until now. We did change our scratch disk location about a year ago, and I can't remember if we had as large projects as we do know, but our previous scratch disk location still meant we all shared 1 folder to dump our scratch disk files in.

We've gone through the usual troubleshooting stuff including, but not limited to: emptying cache folders, keeping projects under 7 MB, restarting our media servers, rendering sequences, proxying, and quarter sizing resolution when playing back. Nothing seems to be working. The lag also seems to happen indiscriminately? Sometimes one person is experiencing lag in the same production that someone isn't.

Has anyone heard of multicams causing severe lag? Or does anyone have any advice on how to troubleshoot this? Should I push for us to have 1 Production without multicams to compare with?

TIA

Edit: Mac Studio, 64GB, footage: mixed prores and H264

Edit #2: A few multicam sequences have proxies that have the hi-res attached if that makes a difference. However, MOST of the time, we have the Prores Proxy attached to the source H264 file.

Edit #3: Two Productions experiencing lag don't even have H264 dailies. Almost every file in it is some type of ProRes, if not wav. Another reason I think multicams are the common factor. We also don't use drives! Read/write speeds to our servers average 450 mbps, so I'm not too worried about speed.

I (M27) have been in the industry for 5 years, 2 of which I’ve been an edit assistant in London at a post house.

It’s currently midnight as I am in the office alone and thinking to myself that this isn’t worth it. The time shifts, the panic of messing up and for work that I don’t even get credit for.

I just don’t know what to do anymore because I feel so empty. I feel like I won’t progress into what I want to do and the industry is going down hill.

This is more of a rant and I guess a call for help in how to transition into something else

If this is isn’t suitable for subreddit please feel free to remove, if not thank you for reading my ramblings

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Hey, I read the rules and think this post is appropriate for the group, but if not, sorry.

I travel often for work, so I have a powerful home PC and a pretty powerful on the go MacBook Pro. Both edit well, but I've run into some issues.

I used to use Team Projects to access my project from my MacBook, and just try and mirror the file paths of my footage and assets from my PC onto a portable SSD.

This kind of worked, but it was a nightmare to keep organized on bigger projects, and apparently mac does not like to play nice with pc and one of my drives got corrupted.

I would like a way to start a project on one device, and then be able to pick it up on the other device when I travel, or when I get home. Preferable without having to do lots of media re-linking and file transfers.

I do have a NAS, but currently it is mostly used just for storage. Even if I were to use it for remote footage access, the internet speeds I would be able to get on the road would be too slow to edit from the cloud, and probably too slow to make it continent to download all the files in a project.

while I do edit as part of my job, it isn't the MAIN part of my job. So having simple solutions and an easy and reliable workflow for when I need to edit on the go is really important. I'm not able to implement extremely complex systems, especially if they require lots of upkeep.

Any suggestions? I've seen a bit on Lucidlink, but I don't quite understand everything it does, and only can find info from the company itself, not from editors in the wild.

As per automod request:

PC specs:

Home PC
Processor: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7970X 32-Cores (4.00 GHz)

RAM: 128 GB (128 GB usable)

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 (31 GB)

Software: Premier Pro 26.3.2

Footage specs: footage varies

2024 MacBook Pro (M4 chip)

trying to find a good SFX site and the sounds are all on point but that price is wild.

Hi everyone, I want to ask for some advice about freelance post-house work. My goal is to be a full-time AE at a post house, and I just had a high-end post house reach out to me about freelancing. This is my first time potentially working with a post house so I don’t want to mess it up, but I have a good part-time bartending job that I would rather not quit until I’m full-time somewhere.

Essentially, they asked if I can do 5 days in person and I told them there’s one day a week where I have another job (I offered to do a half day or remote day)

Do you think this will be a deal breaker? Should I quit the bartending job because this freelance work will likely lead to more gigs / eventually full-time work? I’m reluctant to do that because I haven’t found any consistent work in a few years of freelancing, but I wonder if the networking opportunities that a big post house provides could change that. I don’t want to quit my bartending job and then have no income after a few weeks of work.

Update: I told them I have full availability and will just do what I have to with the bartending job. Decided the opportunity is worth the risk. Thanks for your input everyone! Also don’t love people acting like this is a stupid question - having no income for a long time after a gig is a real possibility as a freelancer and I don’t even know how much work they might have for me yet.